What My Garden Told Me
Hi everyone!
Today I’m giving you a sneak peek of our soon-to-be-released book, What My Garden Told Me. You will be able to order your own copy on 1st December on Amazon.
This little gift book with 96 pages contains 21 topics which were inspired by objects in and around the garden at Evergreen. To add to your enjoyment, each topic is accompanied by a watercolour painting by Merribeth Ainsworth.
One of the topics is Autumn Leaves, and here it is.
Autumn Leaves
It’s the time of falling leaves at Evergreen.
Brightly coloured, almost iridescent leaves from willows, an American Ash, liquid ambers, a purple-leafed sycamore, and a baby ornamental pear tree are releasing themselves from their stems and fluttering and spinning to the ground to form compost for next year’s growth.
My favourite poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins, wrote a poem called ‘Spring and Fall’ in which he gently informs a child who is grieving at the falling leaves that she is really grieving for herself. His message is that life will send her lots of ups and downs, many sorrows, many endings.
Leaves fall. People fall.
We all get blown by forces beyond our control.
Falling is a part of life.
Just like when a scarlet leaf falls, at a deep, deep level that is almost beyond our comprehension, beautiful aspects of ourselves are released as we fall: compassion, patience, acceptance, generosity.
And it’s when we’re down on the ground, as low as we can go, that we start to be of use in ways we never have been before.
A fall implies a new path opening, a new perspective revealing itself, and hitherto unknown qualities emerging.
Like an autumn leaf, let’s go willingly into the fall.
The truth is, everything will be okay as soon as you are okay with everything. And that’s the only time everything will be okay.
Michael A. Singer
The book, What My Garden Told Me, will be available for purchase on Amazon.com on 1st December, in time for Christmas!
With love, Marlane
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